Co-produced by Artexte and the National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives
Exhibition Curator: Felicity Tayler

Presented in Ottawa from 15 September to 24 December 2010 at the National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives, the exhibition will inaugurate Artexte’s new space in the building 2-22 Sainte-Catherine Street East in the Fall of 2011.

At the end of the 1960s, Canadian artists coalesced into collectives that ran parallel to established museum and gallery systems. Throughout the 1970s, these alternative spaces experimented with media such as printed matter as a means for artists to network nationally and internationally. As hybrid documents blending visual and textual expression, printed matter functioned simultaneously as information and as art. A constellation of relationships and revelatory practices can be traced through this material, providing insight into the impetus of artist-run centres and the early work of such artists as Michael Morris, Vincent Trasov, Glenn Lewis, AA Bronson, Tom Sherman, Clive Robertson, Garry Neill Kennedy, Tom Dean and Tanya Mars.

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A group or cluster of related things:
IS, no. 17 (Fall 1975): Mondo Artie: Episode no. 1681, Art’s Birthday, The Hollywood Decca Dance. Ed. Victor Coleman, designed by AA Bronson. Toronto: Coach House Press, 1974.